Veritas

First time at Veritas, renamed with a new chef on board. Beautiful and cosy hideaway, perfect for a intimate candlelit dinner with partners or in my case friends! I thought the portions were a little small at first but the homemade ravioli that I had was so full of flavour and did fill me up after all. Very competitive price for such personable service and delicious food. The White chocolate cheesecake is to die for! I’ll definitely eat here again.

Delicious food and cozy atmosphere! Felt like I was in a small NYC restaurant on the Upper East Side.

Anita booked the table early in the evening, so it wasn’t too busy. And as we had a voucher (When don’t we. eh?) we were in for a treat. Or so we thought.
When we arrived in the small restaurant, I was advised that I could hang my coat «over there». OK? Thanks.
On seating we noticed the waiter /​owner being quite nervous or flustered. It looked like he was well under pressure, quite stressed out or having a cold turkey.
He was drinking a lot of water, rushing from table to table, in and out of the kitchen. It made me feel a bit edgy. I couldn’t relax as he, and his fiddling, nervous ways were pretty much unavoidable in such a small place. This went on like this during the whole meal so my review will reflect this.
Instead of bread & butter we got served a taster on a chopping board, squared pizza pieces. Later we noticed this was supposed to be served with olives, we never got those. The menu was printed on two sheets of paper, we were then quickly advised that we could order up to £20 pp from the menu and a glass of wine. The steak was £19. — and he was off, before I could ask for water.
So in addition we had a sharing platter of antipasti to start with. This was a little underwhelming, tasteless.
The wine was OK, Vino Verde red house wine 125 ml. I managed to get water when he served the wine.
We both ordered the steak, medium rare. This was served with a potato croquette and green beans. The sauce was a red wine jus with mushrooms.
It all tasted just as unimaginative as the above description. The steak was cooked medium (always tricky depending on the cook’s interpretation of medium rare) — the taste was like eating liver, well this may mean it was aged, but as that wasn’t specified on the menu, it may just mean a bad piece of meat. — If it was specifically aged it would have been a selling point — like 21 or 35 days hung in a humidor — in this instance the steak was dry and off taste. The jus/​sauce was a pleasant, well made and tasty.
The whirl winded waiter dropped several pieces of cutlery, a croquette and a glass during our visit. It was a distraction, in fact his whole presence was distracting. I did not fully enjoyed it, it affected my pleasure of speaking to my wife during the meal, the food and the whole of the ambience was dragged down with it. I just felt like yelling to him: «CHILL the F*** OUT, Man! — but I didn’t.
We ate, paid and left.

A very small and easily overlooked restaurant a little outside the city centre, but it offers you a very good Italian dining experience in a very cozy little dining room.

This is a really nice restaurant. I stumbled across it by accident. The food is great authentic Italian food and the service is friendly. We had an antipasti to share as they are quite large for a solo-​starter. It was a platter of Italian prosciutto, salami and delicious cheeses. As a main dish I had a simple but very tasty pizza magarita. Also, the atmospher is nice. And the prices are more than reasonable considering what you get.